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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America

By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
Theories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing market failures to promote greater efficiency or in restricting the efficient functioning of markets in order to pursue public welfare goals. In either case, features of markets... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financial Markets; Personal Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Welfare; France; United States
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  • January 2008 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

Henry J. Kaiser and the Art of the Possible

By: Anthony J. Mayo, Mark Benson and David Chen
From his humble beginnings as a local salesman in New York, Henry J. Kaiser rose to become one of the leading industrialists of 20th century America. Though he had no technical engineering training, Kaiser mastered the management and execution of plans for several... View Details
Keywords: History; Mission and Purpose; Transition; Management Practices and Processes; Construction; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Business History; Business Growth and Maturation; Civil Society or Community; Business Strategy; Planning; Construction Industry; Shipping Industry; United States
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  • 15 Dec 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Joel Isaac, University of Cambridge

  • Web

The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

the railroads linked port cities to outlying areas, and, by the 1850s, they pushed westward and helped settle the frontier. From eastern terminals, American railways grew at an astonishing pace: from 23 miles of track in 1830 to 240,000... View Details
  • 27 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

American emissions tests. Volkswagen estimated that fines, repairs, and legal costs would total more than $30 billion. And worse, the company ceded its command of America’s diesel car market—producing more than one-third of the models... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

Specifically, we examine the impact of the annual July turnover of residents in American teaching hospitals on levels of resource utilization and quality relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. We find that, despite the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

2015 Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile: Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurship By: Jones, G. Abstract—This book compares the effects of globalization on two Latin American... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

The Musts of 2023

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

a US naval base in Honolulu’s Pearl Harbor. The devastating strike marked an immediate change in American public perception of the war—the US was under attack. During the seven weeks before December 7, 1941, both white and Black volunteer... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

researchers to test and build new theories at a more granular level. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55151 forthcoming American Economic Review Beliefs about Gender By: Bordalo, Pedro, Katherine Baldiga... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Apr 2022
  • Book

What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

so nuanced and multi- directional that I came to conceive of a veritable nexus of purpose, autonomy, and trust. To glimpse this nexus at work, consider the fast-growing American eyewear retailer Warby Parker. Founded in 2010, Warby Parker... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Curb Appeal

rate—the amount of waste that it recycles and composts—has for years lingered below 18 percent, a fraction of what some other major American cities have achieved. And DSNY has been slow to adopt tools such as rat-proof containers and... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • Web

Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Ships and Sea Transport (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1931), opp. p. 8, map. Distances Between Ports U.S. Navy, Hydrographic Office, Table of Distances Between Ports (Washington: GPO, 1942), opp. p. 4, map. Ford: Countries of Operation M. Wilkins, & F.R.... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?

To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Web

About - Business History

the Executive Committee of the Harvard Center for African Studies, the Faculty Committee of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and on the Policy Committee of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. He is a... View Details
  • 24 May 2021
  • Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

Approach to Partner Choice in Mutualisms Authors:Marco Archetti, Francisco Ubeda, Drew Fudenberg, Jerry R. Green, Naomi E. Pierce, and Douglas W. Yu Publication:The American Naturalist 177, no. 1 (January 2011) Abstract One of the main... View Details
  • Web

Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

trading, took over leadership from Peter Peterson in 1983. [15] Glucksman placed a greater emphasis on trading versus investment banking, causing tensions between the two divisions. The firm experienced a decline in profits coupled with a weakening economy. A year... View Details
  • 04 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 4

economic globalization and MFI interest rate. This paper contributes to understanding how globalization processes can both ameliorate and exacerbate challenges of institutional voids in emerging and developing economies. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jan 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments

Keywords: by James Sebenius & Laurence A. Green